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Should we be paranoid about the androids?
The early pioneers of AI music were derided and feared. Does it deserve a revival?
Oliver Rhodes
June 16, 2021
Notebooks
Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
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Eureka — what’s the truth about Archimedes’ cry?
Was it a crown or a ship that inspired the ancient inventor's discovery?
Armand D'Angour
June 16, 2021
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On tea
Within this international drink is a microcosm of all the movements and ambitions and exchanges of mankind.
Mahan Esfahani
June 10, 2021
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The secret life of hemp
What connects a cannabis plant with the French Revolution? The little Italian town of Carmagnola – where the manufacture of cannabis hemp became local myth and an international phe..
Tobias Jones
June 8, 2021
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How to speak when speech isn’t free
Today's free thinkers, frustrated by censorship from above and below, would do well to remember the ways of Machiavelli.
Erica Benner
June 5, 2021
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Nothing like a midsummer sacrifice
The summer solstice celebrations are not simply pagan fancies. They embody the centuries-old spirit of the season.
Francesca Peacock
June 5, 2021
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Turin’s touch of the divine
Any trip to Turin would be incomplete without a visit to Palazzo Madama, a treasure trove of Renaissance art and mysterious relics.
Agnès Poirier
June 1, 2021
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Star Wars — the mythos of our times
George Lucas' space epic is the morality tale for our age.
Harry Cluff
May 27, 2021
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Will the real Lesbia please stand up?
Classicists have finally worked out an identity for Catullus's lover Lesbia we can all believe in - Clodia Pulchra, wife of Pompey Junior.
Armand D'Angour
May 27, 2021